Observe the vehicle across the highway. Sure, your eyes are always banging on Honda-branded vehicles, both of cars and motorcycles. This vehicle brand is always crowded traffic density. Because it's probably worth mentioning as the king of the road.
However, did you know, the founder of a business empire Honda - Soichiro Honda - always filled with failures during his life from childhood through to fruition the birth of the global business empire. He could never even hold the title of engineer. He was not a student who has a brilliant brain. In class, his seat was never in front, always away from the view of teachers.We pioneered the business, Soichiro Honda was always filled with failure. He had fallen ill, ran out of money, was expelled from college. However, he kept dreaming and dreaming. And, the dream was finally manifested with the provisions of persistence and hard work.
'Bad grades in school. But I'm not sad, because my world around machinery, motorcycles and bicycles, "said Soichiro, who died at the age of 84 years, after being treated at Juntendo Hospital, Tokyo, due to liver.
His love for the machine, obviously inherited from his father who opened the farm repair shop, in the hamlet Kamyo, Shizuko district, central Japan. In this area he was born. When used to play in the garage, his father always gave pliers (older brother) to remove the nail. He also often played in the rice mills saw a diesel engine driving the motor.
His love for the machine, obviously inherited from his father who opened the farm repair shop, in the hamlet Kamyo, Shizuko district, central Japan. In this area he was born. When used to play in the garage, his father always gave pliers (older brother) to remove the nail. He also often played in the rice mills saw a diesel engine driving the machine.
There, a man born 17 November 1906 may remain silent for hours. Unlike peers, which was then spent more time playing with joy. He's beginning to show uniqueness. Like for example reckless activities chosen at the age of 8 years, with cycling as far as 10 miles. That is just to watch airplanes.
cycling is a hobby when one child. And men, when 12 years old, Soichiro Honda managed to create a model bicycle with foot brakes. Until then, in his mind a dream has not come into the automotive business. Because he knew came from poor families. Moreover, physical weakness, not handsome, so keep him humble.
At the age of 15 years, Honda moved to the city, to work on Hart Shokai Company. His boss, Saka Kibara, very happy to see how it works. Honda careful and skillful in the matter of the machine. Any suspicious voice, every oil leak, did not escape his attention. Six years of working there, adding insights on machinery. Finally, at the age of 21 years, Saka Kibara proposed opening a branch office in Hamamatsu.
In Hamamatsu increasingly improved work performance. He always refused to accept repairs by other workshops. It acts quickly to fix the car too, so customers running again. Therefore, the hours often until late at night, and sometimes until dawn. Interestingly, though continued to work overtime remain creative genius brain.
Genius led to the phenomenon. At that time, the radius of a car made of wood, so not good for the interests of reducing the shock. Realizing this, Soichiro had an idea to replace the spokes with metal. Remarkable result. Metal spokes sells, and exported to all over the world.
At the age of 30 years, Honda's first signed a patent. After creating a trellis. Then Honda also wanted to break away from his boss, making his own garage business. From then on he was thinking, what is selected specialists? Her mind turned to the manufacture piston rings, which is produced by his own workshop in 1938.
Then, offer the work to a number of automotive manufacturers. Unfortunately, his work was rejected by the Toyota, because it is considered not in compliance. Piston Ring made inflexible, and will not sell. He remembered his friends reaction to failure and regret her out of the garage's Kibara Saka.
As a result of that failure, Honda fell ill seriously enough. Two months later, his health restored. He returned to lead the workshop. But, pinston ring about it, yet also has a solution. By looking for answers, he went back to school to increase his knowledge of the machine.
At noon, after college, he went to the workshop to practice newly acquired knowledge. However, after two years as a student, he was eventually released because rarely attended.
"I was dying, because when the hungry are not fed, but packed with long-winded explanation about the food law and its influence," said Honda, who at his young age in love auto racing. To the president, he explained his lectures are not seeking a degree. But knowledge. These explanations are deemed to be an insult.
But out of college is not the end of everything. Thanks to hard work, the design of her ring pinston received a direct party to the Toyota contract. This brings Honda intends to establish a factory. His dream to set up engine plant also seemed increasingly close eyelids.
But unfortunately, it failed intentions. Japan, for ready war, does not provide funds to the community. Not Honda when facing failure and surrender meekly. He then dared raise capital from a group of people to set up factories. But once again disaster coming. After the war broke out, the factory burned, even up to two times the incident happened.
Honda was never discouraged. He was rushed to collect their employees. They were ordered to take the rest of benzene cans thrown away by United States vessels, to be used as material to establish the factory. Suffering seems to not be completed. Unexpectedly, the earthquake broke out destroying the factory, so it was decided to sell the factory ring pinston to Toyota. After that, Honda tried several other businesses. Unfortunately it failed.
Finally, in 1947, after the war, Japan's shortage of gasoline. Here the Japanese economy shattered. To the extent that Honda can not sell the car due to the monetary crisis. And he wanted to sell the car to buy food for his family.
In desperate circumstances, he then returned to play with the bike. Because it breath always smelled of mechanical engineering, he also put a small motor on the bike. Who would have thought, a motorcycle-car establishment embryo Honda - was preferred by the neighbors. Be the motor bike he was producing it.
The neighbors and relatives flocked to order, so that Honda ran out of stock. Then re-establish the factory Honda motorcycle. Since then, success is never out of hand. The following Honda car, became king of the streets of the world, including Indonesia.
Honda lifetime always said, do not always see the success he had in the automotive industry wrestle. But look at the failures experienced. "People see my success is only one percent. But, they did not see 99 percent of my failure, "he said. He gave advice, "When you experience failure, then immediately began to dream again. And dreaming of a new dream. "
Obviously Honda story is an example, that success can be achieved with a minimum investment a person, not smart at school, and only come from poor families.